Cultivator



-UNITED STATES.

PATENT Fries.

santini. n. n. KIsE',:oF-K1Newoon, New annessi CULTIVATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 274,616, dated March 2'?, 1883,

Application tiled November i5, 1882.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SAMUEL D. B. Kiss, of Kingwood, in the county of Hunterdon and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gultivators, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specitication, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure lis a plan view of my improvement. Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation of the same, taken through the "line .fc-m, Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a plan view of one of the plow-beams. Y

The object of this invention is to provide cultivators constructed in such a manner that the plows can be readily adjusted to work at any desired depth in the soil and to throw the soil toward or from the plants. To the arched axle are attached the forward ends of inclined connecting-bars and curved supporting-bars, the rear ends of which are attached to the ends of an arched bar connected with the arched axle by the handles of the cultivator, whereby all the .plows can be raised from the ground at a time and the depth to which the plows enter the ground will be limited. To the rear ends of the inner beams are attached curved and slotted bars, which are secured by bolts to the inclined su pporting-bars, so that the said inner beams can be adjusted toward or from each other, as will be hereinafter fully described.

A represents the wheels, the axle B of which is arched in its middle part, leaving a horizontal part between the said arch and the inner end of each of the wheel-hubs., The axle B, at the inner ends of its journals, works in bearin gs in the lower ends of the bars C, which incline inward and forward, and at their upper ends are attached to the ends of the crossbar D ot' the tongue E, the said cross-bar being strengthened in position by the braces F, attached to it and to the said tongue. The tongue E is further strengthened by the inclined braces G, the upper ends of which are attached to the said tongue E, and their lower ends are attached to the lower parts of the bars C.

To each horizontal part of the axle B are attached the forward ends of three plow-beams,

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H, of unequal length, the inner beam being the shortest and thel outer beam being the longest.

To the axle B, by the saine bolts that fasten the beams H to the said axle, are secured the forward ends of the brace-bars I, which rise above the said beams and are bent downward, and their ends are secured by bolts or rivets to the rear parts of the beams H.

To the rear part of each brace I is bolted a short bar, J, between which and the said brace is secured, by a clam pin g-bolt or thumb-screw,

the upper part of a plow-standard, K. The standards K pass down through keepers L, attached at their forward ends to the beams H, and left open at their rear ends. The draftstrain upon the standards Kis sustained by wooden break-pins M, attachedto the keepers L and the plow-beams H, and against which the rear edges of the said standards rest.

To the lower ends of the standards K are attached plows N, which maybe madedianiondshaped, as shown in the drawings, or ot any other desired shape, as the character of the work to be done may require. With this construction the plows can be adjusted to work deeper or shallower in the ground by loosening the clamping-bars J. Y

To the axle B, at the ends of its arch, are attached the forward ends ofthe bars 0, which incline outward, pass between the plow-beams H, and are attached at their rear ends to the ends ofthe bar l?. The end parts of the bar P are horizontal and pass beneath' the rear ends of the outer plow-beams H. The middle part of the bar P is arched, and to it, or to a bar, Q, attached to its center, are secured the handles B, the forward ends of which are attached to the arch of the axle B.

To the end parts of the axle B, and to the ends of the arched bar P, are attached the ends of two bars, S, the middle parts of which are made wide, and are curved downward to rest and slide upon the ground to limit the depth to which the plows N can enter the ground, and

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ends of the said plow-beams Il to thevk axle B'. The bars T are slotted longitudinally to-w receive the bolts U, that fasten the said curved bars 'I to the inclined bars O, or to the inclined bars O and the intermediate plow-beams H. By' this construction, byloosening the bolts U the inner plow-beamsH can be readily moved inward or outward Ato adjust them to work at such a distance from the rowsof the'forward 1ends of the beams and braces H I, 4that carry-thc plow-standards K, arel conf *l nected, andtherarched bar P, connected with theaxle B by theinclineibars O,w`the curved bars or runners S, and the handles R, as set, forth.H 1

2. In a cultivator, the combnatiorn'with the arched axle-B, theplow-beams H, and the plow-'standards K, of the braces I, the clampbars J, the keepers L, and the break-pins M, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. In a cultivator, the combination, with the arched axle B and the plow-beams H, of the inclinedbars O, the arched barP,the handles R, and the curved bars or runners S, substantially as herein shownV and described.

4. The combination, with the axle and beams, Y of the bars or braces I, `vthecla'nnps J, and the'l keepers L on thebejams, whereby thefsta'n'dard Witnesses:

" R. WCB'LOOM, C. C. WEBsrER.v 

